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December 8, 2006, Friday

'Antigone' Classic Stage Company How liberating it is when the director himself gives a precurtain speech telling you not to bother trying to understand the play you're about to see. It leaves you free to let your mind wander as the thing...

May 20, 2004, Thursday

'Bitter Bierce, or the Friction We Call Grief' P.S. 122 ''If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all.'' Had Ambrose Bierce ever heard those words and taken them to heart, he would have been an exceedingly quiet man, because...

February 19, 2003, Wednesday

'Jennie Richee (or Eating Jalooka Fruit Before It's Ripe)' St. Ann's Warehouse Anyone leaving the current production at St. Ann's Warehouse (38 Water Street, at Dock Street, in Brooklyn) with that warm, fuzzy feeling that theater sometimes...

January 20, 2003, Monday

LIKE a painting still in progress, ''Jennie Richee,'' the hallucinatory music-theater piece inspired by the work of the outsider artist Henry Darger, continues to receive new artistic touches. In its latest brief appearance in Brooklyn -- a...